COMMODITIES, FUTURES AND DERIVATIVES

We represent firms and individual industry professionals in legal matters involving commodities, futures and derivatives. Our clients include futures commission merchants, end users, introducing brokers, commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators, professional traders, and order execution firms. We counsel companies that have hedging needs and off-exchange transactions in commodities and derivatives, and we advise our clients on Dodd-Frank matters.

We cover all facets of regulation and litigation. We advise and assist with the registration of firms and professionals. We handle the defense of investigations and enforcement actions at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the National Futures Association (NFA), and the exchanges. We also regularly represent firms and professionals in membership denial actions, member-to-member arbitrations, and customer-member disputes at every forum, including CFTC reparations, federal and state court, the exchanges and NFA.

With the advent of electronic trading, we have found that many of our futures clients’ trading operations have naturally expanded into securities trading, and we counsel our clients on broker-dealer registration and securities exchange membership. Our attorneys who work with intellectual property rights regularly advise our clients on the development of trading and trade execution platforms.